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[Persian]

I think we need Dread to tell us what thinks about all these new developments!

 

[Mistah K88]

This show had BETTER get the 5 season run now, plus some DTV movies as well. With Disney buying Marvel and all the company would be STUPID not to grab more of this gold. I hope they don't just keep ordering one season at a time. As soon as season 2 ends, ther better be an announcement for at least a season three.. There's NO excuse now.

 

[Persian]

You see Disney now has a golden opportunity. Now that the animation rights for Spidey have reverted to Marvel, this show is the only property from Marvel now that is readily available to Disney. So by immediately announcing further seasons for an animated series (which Disney specialized in) based on Marvel's flagship character they can even attract more attention to themselves.

come on Disney! use your brains!​

 

[varsas]

Disney might have their own ideas and decide to create a new show from scratch. I wonder who has the rights to the designs and work that was done for Sony i.e. all the work for Spectacular.

 

[spider-neil]

this seems very completed. if the news is true and sony have indeed given the television rights to marvel/disney then you'd think disney picking up season 3 would be an absolute LOCK seeing as it is already on the disney XD channel. however sony may make things difficult by saying even though marvel own the character, they (sony) own the likeness and intellectual property of SSM and all the characters/storylines etc based within that universe.

 

[Max Shrek]

I had a thought. Who owns the animation/TV rights to Daredevil? I was thinking Fox, but Marvel owns the rights to X-Men in animation, who Fox owns for the big screen, so maybe not. Maybe Marvel owns the Daredevil rights (for the small screen at least)? And if so, in a hypothetical (but PLEASE become reality) Marvel-produced-Season 3 of SSM, Weisman can bring in Kingpin!t:

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Interesting. Well, whe nare we going to get an announcement? I'm thinking some itme in October or something. I mean, it's starting to get hard to wait. I mean, now that all of this has happened, wouldn't it be a perfect choice ot pick up a 3rd season?

 

[Webhead2006]

well yes now it looks like marvel has the rights for tv/animation stuff while sony still retains the live action film rights for possibly the next decade as it looks. So hopefully with the merger with disney they will decide to pick up the show more, it would be silly like i and others have said. The show has done great on disney xd, its in the market they are looking for boy/teens/male adults 15-25+ range, etc...... Hopefully marvel will make news soon on thing.

Though i wonder what does it mean for the marvel shows over at nicktoons network(are wolverine and that silly ironman toon picked up for more) and what does it mean for that upcoming hero squad toon going to CN?

 

[SpaceWay2009]

Yeah, this announcement leaves a lot of questions unanswered, and Webhead2006 mentioned most, if not of the unanswered questions. I think that having the rights of Spider-Man for the TV may increase the likelihood of getting a season three, except who is going to work on season three? Greg and his coworkers, or someone entirely new?

 

[Webhead2006]

well if its picked up i hope they would get greg and as many other crew guys back. Voice actors are easier to get back then the crew guys.

 

[Mistah K88]

Well, according to Greg Weisman when it comes to Spectacular Spidey, it's out of Sony's court.

Got easily a hundred calls, texts, e-mails yesterday about the big Marvel/Disney news and a few about the Sony/Marvel/Spidey news, so here are a few random thoughts to go with what I posted yesterday...

1. SPEC SPIDEY: The main thing that's changed about the Spec Spidey situation is that Sony is now out of the loop/decision making process about whether or not there's a third season. Before Sony was waiting to see if Disney picked up the series. Then they'd decide on its economic feasibility for Sony. Now Sony isn't part of that equation, leaving the whole thing in Marvel and Disney's hands. Of course, now that Marvel and Disney are kinda one hand, so-to-speak, I don't know what that means for us. Other than the obvious, which is that I'm sure we're not exactly Disney/Marvel's highest priority at the moment. How and when this decision gets made is really up in the air, but a former negative does feel good -- now -- that our last six episodes won't start airing on Disney XD until late October. That means our last episode won't air until early December, which may be a better time for Disney/Marvel to focus on the show. (Or not.) Of course even a positive decision in December or (more likely) January means a HUGE gap between Seasons Two and Three, but I'd take that over no new episodes.

 

[Dread]

I hope they decide to continue with Spectacular and not decide to reboot with a new series.

Indeed. I think that is why they are seeing how the last 6 episodes of Season 2 do ratings wise during sweeps month.

Cost effective wise, I can't imagine that starting over from scratch with a new Spidey cartoon from 2010-2013 (which is inevitably once SPIDER-MAN 4 is in production and released) is more cost effective than doing a third season of this show. The writing team is known, the acting cast is set, there would be zero wasted time with auditions or seeing who has the best pitch. SS-M is a proven show with some recognition after all. Even year-old episodes got "average" ratings for Disney XD. The newer episodes have been climbing in ratings every week. I can't imagine how starting over from scratch with a new show, new production team, new actors, new everything, would be more cost effective than just giving a pre-assembled crew with plans in the can a 3rd go.

I think we need Dread to tell us what thinks about all these new developments!

I wrote an article about the news here: http://www.examiner.com/x-19829-Bro...Buys-Marvel-for-4-billion-Mickey-Meets-Spidey

(SS-M got a mention.)

Disney has dealt with Wiesman before with GARGOYLES, although the DVD treatment of that has hardly been stellar (although to be fair, they haven't sold especially well). Disney did wait a while on the last season of KIM POSSIBLE but they eventually cracked. Disney knows how to get a show to syndication episode count and then to milk it for years. It would cost them far less to get SS-M to that 52-65 episode number than for a new show to do that. Now that Disney doesn't have to share as much of the show with Sony and whatnot, they may be more inclined to get a third season, even if there is a gap. They have been willing to try to "synergize" with other movies before. They released a box set of the 1990's Fantastic Four cartoon after the first film from FOX came out and did well, after all.

This may mean the DVD of the second season and further could get messed up, because to be honest Disney is more incompetent with their DVD releases for TV shows than Sony is (even the MTV Spidey show got a decent DVD release from Sony), but that is a question for another time.

Hopefully Disney will at least try to promote the show better. Ads in comics may not hurt. Over 60,000 people still read ASM a month, collectively.

 

[Webhead2006]

Well nice post dread, hopefully greg and company will hear news soon, be able to officially get back to work and lessen the gap we already know their will be between a 3rd season to even start airing and all that.

 

[Persian]

Here is another great article from IGN on the prospects of the show. It even has some comments from Weisman himself! If you haven’t already read it, you may do so by hitting the link below:​

http://tv.ign.com/articles/102/1020699p1.html​

 

[Webhead2006]

i think part of thise news was posted already but thanks for the link.

 

[Sentinel X]

WTF! If this show doesn't get a 3rd season Im going to be really upset. Honestly I'd rather have SSM season 3 then a Spider-man 4 movie. This show is just so much fun. I cant believe it.

At least give Greg ONE last season so he could complete his vision......

Then when thats done, give Greg Wiseman a Fantastic Four show and make him sign a 3-picture deal for the next spider-man movies

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

I think the best we cna do now is just watch the second season, buy the figures, and hope for the best.

 

[spider-neil]

WTF! If this show doesn't get a 3rd season Im going to be really upset. Honestly I'd rather have SSM season 3 then a Spider-man 4 movie. This show is just so much fun. I cant believe it.

whoa whoa whoa, I don't know about THAT.
I LOVEEEE the SSM but I'm desparate to see SM4 given the choice I'd rather see a new movie.

 

[Dread]

As Greg said, the ball is completely in Disney and Marvel's court, probably more Disney's than Marvel's, and it doesn't hurt where things stand. Disney was going to save the last 6 episodes of Season 2 for sweeps month anyway. At least now Sony is not involved and if a third season is commissioned, Disney does not have to worry about splitting profits with Sony or interacting with Sony on this regard. I can imagine the deal between the two was that Sony wanted more control over the film franchise that they already have made 3 films with and are in production over a 4th and in exchange Disney gets the TV rights.

If the ratings for sweeps for the end of Season 2 prove promising, Disney may be willing to invest in a new season. For petty corporate reasons it could be possible that they may want to start over from scratch in some 1-2 years with a production team that wasn't pre-picked by Sony. For logical commercial reasons, it would be faster, cheaper, and quicker to syndication episode count to simply continue a series that only ended production earlier this year. Especially as this series is already selling DVD's, already selling toys, and is probably way more of a presence than the 2003 MTV series was. It also is doing very well in Canada, although I am not sure that matters much. International reception did help WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN, though. Canada's YTV would lap up more SS-M YESTERDAY.

There is a part of me that is thinking that so long as the ratings for sweeps for the end of the season are healthy (that is, above average or show positive growth every week), Disney may bite for at least another 13 episodes, if not 26 to push it to 52 episodes, which is the low end of "syndication number" i.e. X-MEN EVOLUTION. Networks are usually happier with some 50-65 episodes to air in reruns for a while, i.e. TEEN TITANS on Boomerang or Cartoon Network (and even briefly Kid's WB). The fact that Disney owns Marvel and the cartoon is THEIRS now leads me to believe there is some chance that so long as it seems like a viable asset, Disney will consider pushing it since it is all THEIRS now. Again, it just seems to be the more logical choice in terms of cost and timing. It isn't as if Disney wasn't interested at all in the show. They outbid CW 4KIDS for airing rights. Whether they have been slow to air new episodes or not, they HAVE been airing reruns a gazillion times. It isn't like they aired the episodes 1-2-3 and then banished it, like FoxKids did with SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED. That was a terrible show, but again, that merely was an example of a network airing an episode of a series once and then ditching it ASAP if they are not interested. Disney was interested in SS-M before and should continue to be now that Sony has backed off from it.

Even commissioning another 13-26 episodes of SS-M is a bargain for Disney, as they didn't have to pay a dime to produce the first 26 episodes, merely to air them. If anything, this is the best of many worlds for Disney. It surely can't cost more to continue an acquired series than to produce one from the foundation up. Disney has stepped off their "3D CGI animation or bust" self imposed rule with feature films mostly not because they realize crappy writing and celebrity casting will make or break ANY film, but because 2D animation is faster and cheaper than computer CGI and they can't afford so many bombs either. Hopefully this sort of shrewd shift for costs helps SS-M garner a 3rd season.

Again, while that would mean a gap between Season 2 and 3, but that might be timely if a 3rd season is airing just when hype for SM4 is bubbling.

 

[Webhead2006]

hopefully so dread i do hope things go well in our favor.

 

[Sentinel X]

whoa whoa whoa, I don't know about THAT.
I LOVEEEE the SSM but I'm desparate to see SM4 given the choice I'd rather see a new movie.

I am excited for Spidey 4 but I think the SSM has had a far better portrayal of spider-man than raimi's films. Also you get to see more villains than you would in the movies. The characters are given more time to develop and each season is going to be at least 10 episodes and could go up to about 25.

The only thing raimi's films are better at than SSM are the sfx (well obviously )but after the very disappointing sfx from Spider-man 3 I cant say that its gotten me excited.

 

[spider-neil]

I am excited for Spidey 4 but I think the SSM has had a far better portrayal of spider-man than raimi's films. Also you get to see more villains than you would in the movies. The characters are given more time to develop and each season is going to be at least 10 episodes and could go up to about 25.

The only thing raimi's films are better at than SSM are the sfx (well obviously )but after the very disappointing sfx from Spider-man 3 I cant say that its gotten me excited.

nothing beats seeing your favorite character on the big screen in live action (providing it's done well). obviously I'm hoping for the move AND season 3 SSm.

 

[Spider-Gnome]

I am excited for Spidey 4 but I think the SSM has had a far better portrayal of spider-man than raimi's films. Also you get to see more villains than you would in the movies. The characters are given more time to develop and each season is going to be at least 10 episodes and could go up to about 25.

The only thing raimi's films are better at than SSM are the sfx (well obviously )but after the very disappointing sfx from Spider-man 3 I cant say that its gotten me excited.

I am a lot more interested in getting a season 3 of Spectacular rather than a Spider-Man 4.

I wouldn't mind a reboot of the live action movie series with the Spectacular Spider-Man crew behind it. And then have this reboot eventually cross over with the Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man, Samuel L. Jackson Nick Fury, etc.

 

[Webhead2006]

well it just isnt ime for a reboot of the live action movies. Its to fresh and current still, and they still can make a good buck with rami and toby on board. You should only reboot if it hasnt been around for more them 5+ years. So their is a break between different takes. As for the films yea they have thier good points and their bad points, same with TSSM but i like them both.

 

[spider-neil]

for me the highlight of the entire SSM series is the fight with sinester six where spidey isn't even conscious and the highlight of the enire SM movies is the doc ock train fight, well the train fight is better than sinester six fight (imho). so the movies best moment is better than the animated series' best moment.